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Mr. Barker has been our Chief Executive Officer since August 24, 2006 and a member of the Board of Directors since February 6, 2006 and has over twenty years of apparel experience, including merchandising, sourcing and full profit and loss responsibility, public market experience and corporate governance. Mr. Barker is currently a co-president of The Meriwether Group, Portland, Oregon, which is a corporate investment and business acceleration firm. From approximately October 2003 through April 2005, Mr. Barker was the head of apparel for the North American region for Adidas International, where he was responsible for all strategic product and marketing functions within the region. His duties also included providing overall apparel direction and strategy for the Adidas North American apparel business, creation of the global brand vision of apparel, and he was responsible for sales delivery and brand strategy in the North American marketplace. From approximately January 2001 to October 2003, Mr. Barker was the director of apparel for Adidas America, where he was responsible for overall profit and loss for the entire apparel business in the United States. Mr. Barker also previously worked for Adidas Canada Limited in Toronto, Canada and Levi Strauss & Co. | 